Tension has risen in north Belfast after a series of loyalist attacks.
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Published March 31, 2004
South-east and midlands are new poorest regions
The counties of the midlands and the south-east are now the most
disadvantaged areas in the 26 Counties, with household income in
the midlands and south-east below 85 per cent of the national
average for household income.
Published March 31, 2004
Sinn Féin has revealed its response to criticism by US envoy
Mitchell Reiss of its New York Times advertisment on policing
in the North of Ireland.
The following, taken from an IAIS report, contains the points made in the NY Times advertisement in quotes, followed by Sinn Féin's defense of their claim.
Published March 29, 2004
Harold Gracey, the Portadown Orange leader during the Drumcree
disputes, has died following a long illness.
Published March 29, 2004
You'll often hear it said by people, even those without a word of
Irish, that TG4 produces some fabulous television programmes. On
Saturday night past we saw one of those programmes screened as
part of the Belfast Film Festival.
Published March 29, 2004
A new leader of the unionist paramilitary UVF is suspected of
ordering last week's murder of Andrew Cully in County Down.
Published March 29, 2004
Human Rights Commission chief to quit
The head of the scandal-plagued Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission has confirmed he is to leave the post.
Published March 29, 2004
Irish culture underwent a culture shock today as a complete ban
on smoking in pubs, restaurants and other workplaces came into
force.
Published March 29, 2004
Trimble strengthens hold on UUP leadership
Ulster Unionist party leader David Trimble won 60 per cent of the vote in the latest leadership contest for the still-divided party on Saturday.
Published March 29, 2004
Unionists refuse to lower flag at City Hall
Sinn Féin has threatened court action after unionists dismissed a
legal warning about the permanent flying of the Union Jack flag
at Belfast City Hall.
Published March 29, 2004
Awaiting `No' to planned breach of Agreement
By Eamonn McCann
Could it be racism which has discouraged northern outrage at the plans of the Dublin Government to change the Belfast Agreement without consultation with parties in Northern Ireland?
Published March 26, 2004
Loyalists may have planned festival carnage
A car bomb abandoned by unionist paramilitaries near Belfast city centre last week was destined for the city's St Patrick's Day carnival, it is believed.
Published March 26, 2004
Irish, in the wrong place, at the wrong time
By Breandán Morley (for the Blanket)
Amidst the current focus on the continued activities of paramilitaries in Northern Ireland, I recently had a very personal experience of the extent to which the British police remain unaffected by the peace process when dealing with Irish people travelling to the UK.
Published March 26, 2004
Five tonnes of weapons-grade plutonium and thousands of gallons of contaminated sludge have been discovered at the bottom of a pond at Sellafield, Britain's nuclear waste treatment facility.
Published March 26, 2004
IRA disbandment possible despite loyalist violence - SF
The IRA will cease to exist if there is an ``irreversible'' political process in the North, a Sinn Féin source has said.
Published March 26, 2004
The trial of four men charged with membership of the breakaway
`Real IRA' has collapsed after documents were mislaid by a senior
garda police detective.
Published March 26, 2004
Irish-America blasts `undiplomatic' Reiss
Irish-American groups in the US have attacked US envoy to Ireland
Mitchell Reiss over his accusation that Sinn Féin told ``massive
untruths'' in a New York Times advertisement about policing.
Published March 26, 2004
UUP defections predicted if Trimble stays
The Ulster Unionist Party could face `meltdown' if, as expected,
party leader David Trimble comfortably defeats a challenge to his
leadership tomorrow.
Published March 26, 2004
Government `vocabulary' must change
By now you'll have read the studiously bland communique from Hillsborough that Irish and British officials agreed before Bertie Ahern and Tony Blair met yesterday.
Published March 24, 2004
British spy seeks asylum in U.S.
A British Army agent threatened with jail for his allegations of
Crown force collusion is seeking political asylum in the United
States.
Published March 24, 2004
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